When the Sky Fell: In Search of Atlantis

Daniel M. Kolos is president of Benben Books in Orangeville, Ontario.

This science-oriented book offers a series of astounding proofs of a
great, ancient civilization. At times resorting to the rhetorical style
of sensational writing, the authors trace maps used in the Middle Ages
to Antarctica. They make us look through the earth’s globe, at the
antipodal points on the earth’s crust. The thickest part of the
Antarctic ice sheet corresponds to that of Greenland, and neither of
these points are directly at the poles. The earth’s crust moved,
shifting Greenland away from, and Antarctica fully onto, their
respective poles. Agriculture appeared simultaneously in eight
independent centres around the world, on the earth’s highest mountain
ranges, around 9600 BC. Plato’s legend of the destruction of Atlantis
also dates to 9600 BC.

Legends from around the world form a compelling, unified picture: the
story of a falling sky (where the earth’s crust moved violently
upward), a great flood (where the crust dropped below sea level), a lost
island paradise. This is the realm where science provides mythology with
concrete foundations, and the information is compelling. For example,
the Haida of Canada’s Queen Charlotte Islands and the Sumerians from
the ancient Near East show the same pattern of origins and their
language has similar roots. But whereas the authors quote the Haida
legends, they treat the Sumerian legends as suspect.

The evidence has been gathered. Antarctica was the home of a great
civilization that may have been the legendary Atlantis.